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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

How to Feed a Family by Laura Keogh & Ceri Marsh

Description: **Breakfast**Brunch**The Lunch Box**Snack Attack**Dinners**Desserts**What
could be more important to parents than a healthy, well-fed family? As
two urban, working moms, Ceri Marsh and Laura Keogh learned quickly how
challenging healthy meal-times can be. So they joined forces to create
the Sweet Potato Chronicles, a website written for, and by,
non-judgemental moms, packed full of nutritious recipes for families.

In the How to Feed a Family cookbook,
Laura and Ceri have selected their very favorite recipes, to create a
collection of more than 100 for all ages to enjoy. These are recipes
that are tailored specifically to families: they are simple, fast,
easy-to-follow, and use ingredients that are readily-available at your
local grocery store. Ceri and Laura unveil their tried, tested and true
tricks for turning nutritious, sophisticated dishes into kid-friendly
masterpieces, that will guarantee you success at meal-time, time and
time again.

Interspersed with the recipes are parenting tips and
advice to encourage happy meal-times for the whole family: get ready to
turn your picky eaters into enthusiastic kitchen helpers!

The Good Stuff

Delicious wholesome and healthy recipes

Lots of pictures and the photography is marvelous - you will drool (Every recipe looks like you could taste it right on the page)

Recipes are organized nicely, easy to read and easy to follow

Plenty of variety in types of recipes

Love the picture of one of the women cooking and drinking a glass of wine - now that is my kind of mom

Never comes off preachy - as often is the case in these type of cookbooks

Didn't make it yet (ricotta cheese is insanely pricey in Calgary and we on a tight budge right now) but cannot wait to try Rosalia's Grain Pie - looks seriously yummy and easy to make

Appreciated and agree with letting the kids help you cook and bake - both my boys bake with me & 12 yr old already can make basic meals for himself - he makes a mean Egg McMuffin (yeah yeah - this ain't McDonalds but what else are we going to call it - his is healthy though)

Chicken Chili Tacos is going to be a regular staple for us - everybody loved it and it was easy to make - corn tortillas were not a hit though (could be the brand but they were not very good and we even grilled them a little on the bbq) - we may just use our regular ancient grain ones

Can't wait to share this cookbook with my new friend, Sarah

The Not So Good Stuff

Some ingredients hard to find in smaller towns - for example went to 6 different stores before I found spelt flour and the stuff cost a mint - would have liked a substitute listed for it (though in many other cases like brown rice syrup they did mention one)

Will be hard to get my kids to eat many of the recipes - but am willing to put in the effort (5 yr old ate the tacos but it took me an hour to get him to eat them)

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Married Mom of 2 wonderful but unruly boys. A Library Technician but currently working for Westjet Vacations. I am a book nerd and geeky tv loving optimist with a dry twisted sense of humour and a big heart.